As vehicle use in road traffic is increasingly
addressed through a work health and safety
perspective, additional guidance and support
is paramount for you and your employees. If
for nothing else the chilling statistics should be
cause for alarm across the country.
number includes both workers and people killed
as a result of someone else’s work activity,” said
Safe Work Australia Director of Research and
Evaluation Dr Fleur de Crespigny.
“In addition, each year around 3,000 workers
sustain a serious injury as a result of a vehicle
incident.”
According to data from Safe Work Australia,
vehicles kill more workers than any other cause
and have been involved in 65 per cent of all
work-related fatalities over the last 10 years.
Machinery operators, drivers and labourers are
the most at risk occupations, although the risk
of vehicle incidents is there for anyone working
in or around vehicles.
Drivers can implement a range of controls to
ensure their safety around a vehicle, such as
scheduling major deliveries in ‘off peak’ times,
undertaking safe work practices in and around
the vehicle and on the work site, and not driving
when fatigued or distracted.
Below are 5 key areas you should consider when
attempting to protect and improve the performance
of your employees in the mobile workplace:
“Our data shows that in the 10 years to 2014,
1848 people died in work-related incidents
involving vehicles on roads in Australia. This
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